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Consumer education `will help prevent cheating'

By Our Staff Reporter

VELLORE, DEC. 15. The need to educate consumers so that they are not cheated was stressed by speakers at a seminar-cum-exhibition on consumer protection and education here on Tuesday.

The Vellore Collector, S. Gopalakrishnan, said that cheating was widespread, and consumers had to be educated on how they were likely to be cheated. Adulteration of foodstuffs was a major problem. People should not buy poor quality products because they were cheap, but should only buy products that had the Indian Standards Institution (ISI) and Agmark seals. Consumers should know the consumer-related laws and seek legal remedy when traders or other service providers cheated them, he said.

Mr. Gopalakrishnan said the government was also a service provider serving the public. The government departments had been computerised to ensure transparency. A. Susheela Thirumaran, Vice-Chancellor the Thiruvalluvar University, wanted consumer clubs to be started in all colleges to educate students and their parents. Consumer protection should be included as a lesson in non-formal education too.

The university, she said, would coordinate the consumer clubs in the colleges for creating consumer awareness, she said. A. Jaya, Principal, the DKM College for Women presided.

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